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Get the US Out of the UN!
From: tim nicely <mailto:tsnicely@netacs.net>
To: president@whitehouse.gov
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 1:42 PM
Subject: UN
Timothy S. Nicely October 14, 2001
4221 County Rd. 15
South Point, OH 45680-7371
740-894-0691
tsnicely@netacs.net
Dear Mr. President
I am writing today about a matter that has bothered me deeply for some time
and more so in the past few weeks since the September 11th attacks on our nation.
I first want you to know that I love our nation dearly and believe in the effectiveness
of our constitutional republic, and that since the age of eighteen I have served
this county 15 years in the U. S. Army –proudly under former Presidents
Reagan and Bush- and am currently a Federal Correctional Officer. I am in addition
to my official capacities, a father of three girls and a husband, so I wish
to pass on to my children a nation in better condition than it is now. That
is part of the reason I voted for you and urged others to do the same in the
last election.
America’s greatness has been demonstrated in this century through the actions
of our nation defending those oppressed and in need. However, I believe it is
time to rethink our national foreign policy, especially foreign financial aid
packages to nations or organizations that prove to be hostile toward us- actions
do speak louder than words. I truly believe that if you personally asked everyday,
working, taxpaying Americans what their opinion was on foreign aid was? They
too would feel as I do- our tax monies would best be used within our own borders.
It seems common sense when we citizens see you and congress debating budget
cuts that the first place to get cut is foreign aid - our people are being taxed
into oblivion- and this would prevent either side from using Social Security
and Medicare to scare our nations elderly. One area that should be first to
get the axe is the UN. Why should we as Americans foot 25% of the UN operating
budget when the majority of member nations are blatantly hostile to our greatest
of all nations? In recent months they have attacked our second amendment; labeled
us a civil right crushing racist nation (Durban, South Africa) and are trying
to destroy our very national sovereignty, (UN Secretary –General Kofi Annan
stated that national sovereignty gets in the way of the UN objectives) all the
while holding their hand out demanding, or extorting monies if you prefer, from
the American people.
Russia and China, as well as our supposed allies in NATO, don’t want us
to build a missile defense system to defend our borders, which we obviously
need in light of Sept. 11th.. You yourself on your October 11 address to the
nation, stated that the "ABM treaty is outdated, antiquated and useless.
And I hope that he [President Putin] will join us in a new strategic relationship."
It is these very alliances or coalitions, or treaties that limit our ability
to defend ourselves. Get us out of the UN and other foreign entanglements!
The UN has no understanding of or respect for our American freedoms, so how
can we trust such an organization that individual rights and freedoms are such
foreign ideas to the despots that inhabit the halls of the UN to protect our
US interest? Recently I had written a letter to Mr. Annan in opposition to the
Small Arms Conference, just to learn that mine, along with many other concerned
Americans’ politically oriented letters were turned over to the UN security
office for analysis for possible terroristic threat. This just goes to prove
the fact that the UN and other such organizations are made up of despots with
no regard for the freedoms that we enjoy as Americans. They are not concerned
with the average citizens’ right to defend themselves no more than they
are with the US maintaining the ability to defend itself with increasing threats.
We don’t need the UN to protect our nation, we need strong elected leaders
willing to do the job that we elected them to do- that is, if you don’t
know, to protect our freedoms as well as our borders.
Can you please explain to me why the United States must send our taxpayers monies
out of our borders and especially why continued US involvement with the sovereignty
stealing UN is so important that Americans must pay 25% of its operating budget?
It doesn’t make good sense to rural Americans like myself who still believe
in traditional American values and the ideas outlined within the Declaration
of Independence, U.S. Constitution, and Bill of Rights. The county-by-county
breakdown of the last election shows that the majority of rural Americans voted
in favor of you and this was due to your standing for American Values. The fundamental
principles of our constitutional republic are that individual rights come from
our creator. To protect these rights governments are instituted among men, these
governments are given very specific and limited powers and are held accountable
to the people whom elected them.
Another example of the freedom eroding nature of the UN specifically is the
International Criminal Court. In the Declaration of Independence, our founding
fathers outlined several atrocities committed by the tyrant King George, among
these atrocities our forefathers were subjected to " jurisdiction foreign
to [their] constitutions and unacknowledged by [their] laws;" depriving
them of the benefits of trial by jury;" and transporting them " beyond
the Seas to be tried for pretended offenses." Prohibitions against these
very acts are spelled out in the Bill of Rights. The proposed ICC would deny
Americans of these rights. Furthermore an ICC decision cannot be appealed except
to the same ICC Court and there are not previsions for bail or speedy trial.
Elected public servants and appointed public officials should first be students
of history and the Constitution before being declared fit for duty.
It is blasphemous to know that Independence Hall, were our nations independence
was declared is now a UN World Heritage site. The principles that were put to
paper in this most hallowed site of American heritage are quite different than
those enshrined in the principles espoused in the UN mission, which are more
along the line of Marx, Moa, Lenin, Stalin, and Castro than Madison, Jefferson,
Jay, Webster, and Franklin. Our founders were much wiser men than live in this
day and we could learn from them.
Several of our elected public servants have suggested that we should overhaul
the UN, like there is some kind of redeeming good inherit in the organization.
However, for an organization as corrupt and seething with socialist, communist,
and dictators there is no accommodation, no compromise. The only solution is
complete withdraw. I am not advocating isolationism, but non-intervention in
the internal affairs of other nations. Our foreign affairs should be conducted
out of our many embassies throughout the world, as it was before the foundation
of the global organization. We should do what used to be called " minding
our own business", as we want other nations to do when it comes to our
internal matters. Did any other nation send troops, advisors, or observers to
our nation during the last election to insure impartial recounts? No! We handled
it ourselves. George Washington stated in his 1797 Farewell Address, "
the great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending
our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connections
as possible." This is good advice even in our modern world. Thomas Jefferson
reiterated this when he said, "...peace, commerce, and honest friendship
with all nations, entangling alliances with none." Senator Robert Taft
of Ohio wrote in 1951: "fundamentally… the ultimate purpose of our
foreign policy must be to protect the liberty of the people of the United States…
No foreign policy can be justified except a policy devoted without reservation
of diversion to the protection of the American people, with war only as a last
resort and only to preserve that liberty." I believe that seeking out and
destroying those responsible for, those that protect, and fund the acts that
transpired on September 11, 2001 is justified, but coalitions have in
the past proven to stop us short of destroying those that do us harm. In the
same line of thought of Senator Taft, did we as a nation get distracted by the
internal affairs of other nations and allow the attack on our own people? Did
our elected officials enable the terrorist to slaughter in excess of 6000 Americans?
Bring our military back within our borders, protect our home front first, withdraw
from the UN peace keeping forces that have us distracted by the affairs of other
nations and allowed the slaughter of innocent Americans to occur. Patrick Henry
once said, "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the
price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!" Get US out of the
UN, and break the chains that bind us in the name of world peace that at the
same time threatens our nation sovereignty, freedoms, and security.
I know that you are busy with the problems of our nation, and I would like to
mention that you are doing a excellent job and it makes me proud to have voted
for you. However, I would like you to personally address these concerns and
take action. In the past month we have heard many words of support from supposed
friends, but past actions speak louder than words. DEEDS NOT WORDS. I will continue
to communicate my opinions to you as well as my other elected public servants.
Sincerely,
Timothy S. Nicely
Get US out of the UN !
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